How to Use young in a Sentence

young

1 of 2 adjective

• The season is still young.
• He looks young for his age.
• A very nice young man greeted us at the door.
• He dreamed of being an artist when he was young.
• The movie isn't suitable for young viewers.
• Our youngest daughter just started school.
• He's still too young to buy alcohol legally.
• Young people today have a lot of opportunities.
• There’s a young man here at A24 who has the lamp tattooed on his arm.
  — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 21 Sep. 2023
• For the first time in the club’s young life, Bay FC has some problems to address.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2024
• Travis Kelce is spreading joy to young Swifties in his home state!
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
• Most of them are young people who have their own dreams.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• Of course, help is available to young people from all over.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• And if the rings are young, Enceladus and a handful of other moons might be young too.
  — WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023
• Moore gave a young boy dressed in school colors his glove after the San Diego State game.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• But the new and, hopefully younger, management will have to do more to keep up with the pace of change.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• The most recent instance was a month ago — courtesy of a younger couple.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
• The average age of the players ranked above James this season is more than a decade younger than him.
  — Dr. Kanithra Sekaran, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2023
• The eighth bus from Texas arrived in L.A. with 40 asylum-seekers, one as young as 9 months.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Once again, the bright-eyed star played a young man wooing more mature women.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• Flying the friendly skies for a parent with a young child can feel like anything but.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 12 Jan. 2024
• Durante Verzola is a young artist with fine-aged craft stored in his soul.
  — Guillermo Perez, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• Read on for everything to know about Arnold Schwarzenegger's youngest son.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
• My second piece for young entrepreneurs is to start early.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Its oldest members are not quite ready for a quinceañera, while its youngest will be conceived in the coming weeks.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• Turns out, Nantz’s dad bought that for the family, and young Jim spent hours down there teaching himself how to play.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Great, hard-working young [kid] that comes from a great family.
  — Richard Davenport, arkansasonline.com, 17 Apr. 2024
• Hundreds of young people at a peace concert died, many raped and tortured.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Eads hopes the new livestream will reach a younger audience and allow people to watch days later.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• What were those early years like for you as a young actor in Mexico City?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024

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young

2 of 2 noun

• The young of a wolf are called pups.
• The very young and the elderly are particularly sensitive to the disease.
• There’s a lot of angry young Dan on those first records.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
• Mothers sneak inside and lay their eggs in the cells a host bee has built for her own young.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2012
• Sawyer, my best friend’s kid—to help me figure out what the youngs are into these days.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 5 July 2018
• Its six young South Americans will cost the team less than half what the last season.
  — Kevin Baxterstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• In the wild, males will sometimes kill the young of another male and replace them with his own.
  — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• Of course, each of the kids are starting to show off their true personalities, even at this young of an age.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• The number of offspring were cut in half, and many of the young of parents that were exposed to fear were less healthy than their non-traumatized peers.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• The bees are named after cuckoo birds, which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, who then feed and protect the intruder to the detriment of their own young.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2018
• During the annual pupping season, the area is swarmed with mothers who raise their young on the coastline.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• Neighboring wasp queens like to visit an unguarded nest, snatch a baby from its cell, and bring it home to carve up and feed to their own young.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2015
• Female crocs, and some males, do sometimes respond to the distress cries of their own young, which share some acoustic features with the calls of primate infants.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• Back in 2004, while promoting Man on Fire, Washington praised Fanning and her acting skills, even at that young of an age.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• Way back in 2004, while promoting Man on Fire, Washington praised Fanning and her acting skills, even at that young of an age.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022
• When successful, the male lions will even kill the young of their predecessors to bring the females into heat to rear their own offspring.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• It was likely initially brought as prey for the eaglet already in the nest, but the eagles began to raise it as their own young, with a second red-tailed hawk joining the nest later.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Except that the young of any dairy cow is taken from the mother almost immediately.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
• This is Idzik’s first season as the Bucs receivers coach, but older players are blown away by the collection young of talent at their position.
  — Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the months leading up to Zoe giving birth, she was also shown videos of orangutan mothers caring for their young to help the primate understand what to do with a new baby.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
• Jay families sometimes remain together long enough for the young of the year to assist in raising the next generation.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• Inside India, the long-term consequences of failing to match its young with adequate employment could be grave.
  — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Those toxins accumulate in the whales’ blubber, and are also concentrated in mothers’ milk and passed down to their nursing young.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• As interesting as the period after the hummingbird young of the year leave the nest is, the fall migration period is even more exciting.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Unfortunately, the youngs were only able to complete one of those very important missions.
  — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 1 Apr. 2016
• Maybe that’s a consequence of a parent dying young who’s been involved in public service and has only been involved in it in a way that’s pretty idealistic.
  — Becky Bohrer, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
• Male chimps at West African sites have also been seen adopting the dependent young of a deceased or missing parent, a shouldering of fatherly duty at odds with newborn killings witnessed elsewhere.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
• Snapchat’s core business model and its claim on the fickle attention of addled, low-information consumers (read: the youngs) rests on enabling people to send impulsive, often vulgar missives that then disappear.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• The young of a wolf are called pups.
• The very young and the elderly are particularly sensitive to the disease.

Last Updated: 3 May 2024